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Furnishing or serving as a retreat...
retreat
retreat : the act or process of withdrawing from a dangerous situation NOTE: Many jurisdictions require that a person must have at least attempted a retreat, if it was possible to do so with safety, in order for a defense of self-defense to prevail. Retreat from an attack in one's own home, however, is usually not required. retreat vb ...
Retreatment
The act of retreating specifically the Hegira...
Drunkenness
Drunkenness, intoxication with strong liquor; habit-ual inebriety. A contract made by a person when so drunk as to be unable to understand what he is doing is voidable if the person with whom the contract was made was aware of the fact, but it is not void, and may be ratified when he becomes sober, Matthews v. Baxter, (1873) LR 8 Ex 132. Mere drunknness was punishable by statutes 4 Jac. 1, c. 5, and 21 Jac. 1, c. 7, ss. 1, 3, by a fine of five shillings and confinement in the stocks in default of distress. Under the Licensing Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 94), which repeals various previous enactments, drunkenness in a public place or licensed house is punishable by fine (s. 12). Disorderly drunkenness is punishable by fine or imprisonment, and refusal by drunken persons to quit licensed premises is punishable by fine. [(English) Licensing Consolidation Act, 1910, s. 80]The 1st s. of the (English) Licensing Act, 1902 (2 Edw. 7, c. 28), enacts that--If a person is found drunk in any highw...
Redemptorist
One of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer founded in Naples in 1732 by St Alphonsus Maria de Liquori It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected esp in missions and retreats and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the instruction of youth...
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia, means mental disorder, Ram Narain Gupta v. Rameswari Gupta, AIR 1988 SC 2260: (1988) 4 SCC 247: (1988) Supp 2 SCR 913.Schizophrenia, is a type of mental illness and is a form of psychosis, which is more serious than other types of mental illnesses, Rohini Prasad Lal Bihari Ram v. Union of India, (1995) MLJ 268.Schizophrenia, is one of a group of severe emotional disorders, usually of psychotic proportions, characterized by misinterpretation and retreat from reality, delusions, hallucinations, ambivalence, inappropriate affect, and withdrawn, bizarre, or regressive behaviour; popularly and erroneously called split personality, Medical Legal Dictionary, Sloane-Docland, p. 628...
Mercen-Lage
Mercen-Lage, the Mercian Laws, which were observed in many of the Midland counties, and those bordering on the Principality of Wales, the retreat of the ancient Britons-one of the three principal systems of law prevailing indifferent districts about the beginning of the eleventh century, 1 Bl. Com. 65...
Habitual drunkard
Habitual drunkard. Defined by the (English) Habitual Drunkards Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. c. 19) (made perpetual by the Inebriates Act, 1888, and amended by the (English) Inebriates Acts, 1898 and 1899), which authorizes confinement in a retreat, upon the party's own application, as:-A person who, not being amenable to any jurisdiction in lunacy, is notwithstanding, by reason of habitual intemperate drinking of intoxicating liquor, at times dangerous to himself or herself or to others, or incapable of managing himself or herself, and his or her affairs.See also (English) Licensing Act, 1902, s. 5 (extended to drug addicts by 15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 51, s. 3); Eaton v. Best, (1909) 1 KB 632; R. v. Briggs, ibid. 381; and DRUNKENNESS....
Slum
A foul back street of a city especially one filled with a poor dirty degraded and often vicious population any low neighborhood or dark retreat usually in the plural as Westminster slums are haunts for theives...
Secess
Retirement retreat secession...
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